This case study concerns the use of one-to-one storytelling inspired by Ubuntu philosophy as a research method. Ubuntu is a Bantu, Nguni (African) philosophy that is encapsulated in the saying, "I am because we are, and since we are, therefore I am." This inspired the use of one-to-one storytelling as a method, as it provided space for…

This case study presents two qualitative feminist research approaches to investigate lived experiences of early-career academics: autoethnography and collective narrative inquiry. Autoethnography tells a story from the researcher's perspective, whereas collective narrative inquiry challenges researcher objectivity and presents multiple participant…

This methods case study describes the design and implementation of a digital, multimodal journal from a yearlong program evaluation using self-study methods. The program evaluation focused on the author's transition of practice from elementary teacher to teacher educator and aimed to improve the author's practice. The design of the digital,…

Institutions of higher education are struggling to meet the growing demand for online courses and programs, partly because many faculty lack online-teaching experience. This case study provides an overview of a continuing faculty development program for online instructors--the eQIP (eCampus Quality Instruction Program, one institution's…

This case study describes a research project employing a sequential explanatory mixed-methods design investigating teachers' motivations, expectations, values, and teaching practices due to their attendance of an innovative Professional Development program in the United States. The Professional Development program, called Research Experience for…

This case study considers some of the methodological challenges encountered when revisiting the professional lives of 27 mid-career teachers from cities in Germany, Norway, and England. I say "revisit" because these teachers were not strangers to me and I am still in touch with many of them today. For my PhD, I had, several years…

This research developed from a chance meeting. I was invited to a dinner hosted by a group of my former student teachers, and during our conversation, I listened intently to their experiences of 'culture shock' and painfully slow sense of professional development as the 12 young teachers looked back on their first few years of teaching. Ten of…

In 2010, a PhD scholarship afforded me an interruption from my teaching role in UK Further Education (FE). Because of my interests in enhancing teaching and learning, I chose to investigate the emotional aspects of lesson observations. Previous studies focused on lesson observations within schools or universities, but my research centred…

In this case, I describe a case study I carried out with a class of 5-year-old children. As a primary mathematics teacher-educator, I wished to experience--first hand--teaching mathematics language explicitly, as recommended by many international researchers and also by myself as part of my University courses. The topic taught was subtraction, and…